[2020-07-25 00:18:55 +0200] Baptiste Jonglez:
On 24-07-20, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote:
The migration is almost done. Since we are moving to a new machine, it will have new host keys. They are:
Ed25519: SHA256:RFzBCUItH9LZS0cKB5UE6ceAYhBD5C8GeOBip8Z11+4 ECDSA: SHA256:5s5cIyReIfNNVGRFdDbe3hdYiI5OelHGpw2rOUud3Q8 RSA: SHA256:uTa/0PndEgPZTf76e1DFqXKJEXKsn7m9ivhLQtzGOCI
Can't you just copy the SSH host keys from the old machines?
It's the same service as before and (presumably) the host private keys were not compromised, so there is no reason to change keys.
It's quite unsettling that we seem to be rushing to write a news post while this very reasonable suggestion remains completely ignored. For future migrations I would greatly appreciate if not all on-disk data were thrown away. On top of SSH keys, there are home directories which contain not only user data but also in some cases things useful for the distro as a whole (such as the service I use to version iana-etc files). Cheers. -- Gaetan